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Gutenberg Plans Pricing

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Gutenberg Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Project Gutenberg on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.

It defines 2 plans, with named plans including Free, Self-Hosted.

Tagged areas include Books, Ebooks, Public Domain, Literature, and Library.

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Plans

Free

Full access to the Gutendex API with no authentication, no API keys, and no usage fees. Provides access to metadata for 75,000+ public domain books including titles, authors, subjects, bookshelves, download links, and download counts.

Self-Hosted

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